Virgin Long Haul Flights

dellas1979

Apparently Virgin will be providing cheap long haul flights (apparently something like Ryanair are doing at the moment). Ive only heard this in hear say. I went on Virgin site, but nothing there (I could see anyways).

Anyone know anything about this? Apparently it will extend as far as Oz etc.

Would be great wouldnt it.

Ruu_Old

Moved from AH.
I'll believe it when I see it. How long would people have to wait for Richard Branson to setup a hub in Dub airport though?

from the Telegraph India.

Three of the world’s popular budget airlines, including Richard Branson’s Virgin, are in talks to form a Malaysia-based long-haul airline joint venture company, which would offer very low fares.

Branson is in discussions with Airasia’s Tony Fernandes and easyJet’s Stelios Haji-Ioannou to form an alliance to produce what will be the world’s first low-cost global network, the Star newspaper reported.

The joint venture will first fly between Kuala Lumpur and Manchester in Britain and Amritsar in India. There are also plans to fly to Hangzhou near Shanghai and Tianjin near Beijing, industry sources said.

Fares on the long distance flights will be as low as 100 ringgit ($27) for destinations in China. Fares to Britain from Kuala Lumpur’s low-cost terminal will be between 300 ringgit ($83) and 2,500 ringgit ($695), sources said.

The Star quoted industry sources as saying that the alliance — if it decides to fly to London as well — could also use the Luton airport as a hub because Virgin already operates a rail link from there to central London.

Branson’s Virgin group includes budget carriers Virgin Express and Virgin Blue.

Industry sources said a combination of the three personalities along with their companies and contacts would be “lethal”.

The link-up with Virgin and easyJet would give Airasia access to London’s Standstead airport.

jrey1981

I think you'll find this was a cheap PR ride by AirAsia on the back of the Virgin and Easyjet brands